The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-16

to give, got drunk and tore up the books,
and that they intended to break the piano
up with an ak, but was afraid somebody
| would hear them. The negro has been EN-
ployed by ". P. Maxwell, at Spaldng
| Williams begged the detective not TO carry
him to Schley county, as he was afraid the
people over there would hang him, as he
had stolen some corn and attempted 10 out
rage little girl. He is a bad character
and will be SIRE to 90 up on two charges
burglary in the night time and malicious
mischief
Gov. Gordon has commutod the fine and
! Imprisonment of DR. John G. Elder, OF Jas
! per county, from $50 aud twelve months
| imprisonment to fine OF $50. Dr.. Elder
was convicted at the September term, 1887.
/ of Jasper Superior Court of tine otfense Of
furnishing liquor to a minor, and the sen
-tence above was imposed A very large
! petition was presented to the Governor ask
ing for the pardon of DIR. Elder, or the com
mutation of his sentence IL was shown
that he was in the habit Of prescribing
whisky as a stimulant and a tonic to the
father of the minor that he could not recall
the circumstances of the offense for which
he was convicted; that he had alwaysborne
a good character, and the officers Of the
court, the grand and traverse jurors, to-
gether with members of the bar and minis
tiers of the gospel, united with large num-
Der of citizens in asking for the pardon.
The papers were made out Friday and for
warded to the Sheriff of Jasper county.
1t is now very unlikely that the State
House will be decorated on the occasion OF
President Cleveland's visit The House of
Representatives has insisted upon the state
ment that it has no authority or power TO
appropriate money for such purpose Its
refusal is not based upon any unwillngness
to decorate in honor of President Cleveland;
the enthusiastic cheers that greeted the
name of the President in the illusions to
him in Mr. Randalns address in the House
show Enthusiastically how the House feels to-
wards the chief executive. There is sin
cere belief that the appropriation would be
unconstitutional, and an effort was made to
collect the necessary amount of money by
voluntary subscriptions. Quite nice sum
has been realized so far, but not enough yet
to justify an attempt toward decoration.
The Adjutent General, who has charge of
the public buildings, believes that it will be
better not to decorate at all than to attempt
a decoration that will be certain to fall far
below what is expected of a great State in
such matter.
A little sensation was created at the store
of Clements & Mccall, at Buena Vista, Fri
day morning, on account of 81 200 being
missing, which they thought was stolen.
They received large safe on that morning
with great many inside drawers, and it
was with some difficulty that they found
ae right keys to unlock them. In the ex-
element Jim Lowe had unlocked the bot
tom drawer in the safe and placed little
drawer containing the money in it and had
forgotten that the drawer had ever been
opened. The money was missed and
every drawer that they thought had
been opened was searched over and over,
the cash drawer under the counter was ram
sacked in every hole and corner, and they
even looked behind boxes and barrels, but
the package of money could not be found.
Messrs. Clements and Mccall began to grow
nervous, and pallor came to their cheeks
which the loss of 81 200 would bring to any
ones cheek these hard times. Finally some
one standing by said the bottom drawer
had been opened, and mentioned the num-
Der of the key that would unlock it. This
key was placed nervously into the lock, the
drawer was opened, and there the little
drawer containing the cash was found, and
with it a rosy hue came back to the cheeks
of the proprietors of the store.
A pathetic request was made of the Gov
ernor Friday by convict named McAllis-
ter, confined at the Chattahoochee brick
yard. McAllister is working out a SEN
tence for the offense of shooting at man
named O'Shields some time ago. Several
petitions for his pardon have been made,
but each time protest was entered by
O'Shields against the pardon. Within the
past few weeks O'Shields has withdrawn
his objections, and it is very likely that Nc
Allister will be pardoned, as there are a
number of mitigating circumstances con-
nected with the case. The request made
Friday was by telegraph. McAllister
received message that his
sister was dying in Atlanta with
summons to come TO her bedside. lie
telegraphed the Governor the facts and
asked that he be allowed to wear citizens
clothes. The Governor was not in when
the telegram arrived, and as there was but
very little time for the answer to reach Nc
Allister in time to take the train to reach
his sister, nothing could be DONE The law
allows the Governor no discretion or au-
thority in the matter of relieving convicts
from wearing stripes. The law is obliga-
tory, and while frequently cases arise
where circumstances would seem to warrant
temporary release in the matter, the execu-
tive has no power to do so.